romgrk / lister

An experimental Gtk-based fuzzy-finder (with support for neovim)

Lister - Fuzzy finder

This project is in alpha state. If you're interested and want to test it please do so. Be warned that it requires a particular setup, see requirements below.

This is a fuzzy picker interface that can be opened from any other application. It is meant to be used from within neovim.

Requirements

The current implementation relies on a lot of things. Cross-platformly opening a window over the active window is not an easy thing to do, but I will remove dependencies as I find solutions.

• nodejs
• Linux
• X11 && xdotool Gnome (either X11 or Wayland)
• xwininfo
• xprop
• fd
• C & C++ compiler (for node-fzy)
• gtk3, cairo, gobject-introspection (for node-gtk that creates the interface)

Install (for neovim)

Plug 'romgrk/lister', { 'do': 'npm install' }

Then define your mapping for :Lister. The server is started automatically, and you can control it with :ListerStart and :ListerStop.

How

The server always runs in the background. This allows to reduce the startup delay.

node src/index.js

Then, the client can send requests.

~/path/to/lister/bin/lister

For now, this is all highly experimental. The client sends queries by running fd -t f in the current directory to the server and that's it.

lister's Issues

Find compatible way to retrieve the active window dimensions

For now, xwininfo will only work on Linux X11.

Is there any plan to support macOS for this plugin?

Hi, @romgrk .
I’m very excited to have found this very nice plugin.
It is very interesting to be able to use vim to create a fuzzy finder with a modern design, which I have been looking for for a long time.

I'm using macOS Big Sur and when I tried to install this plugin, it didn't seem to work.
The README says that it is only compatible with Linux, but is it not compatible with macOS?
Maybe I don't understand all the steps required to activate this plugin just from the information in the README.

By the way, I'm using dein.vim to manage the plugin.
I'm planning to try it out and would be happy to learn more about it.

Thank you very much.